In the third of four essays on the artists to be presented in HACER RUIDO on 4/16, Curatorial Fellow Carolina Vélez Muñiz explores the work of interdisciplinary artist and resource mining engineer Babak Ahteshamipour.
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Bárbara Lázara is devoted to making space for technologies that have been betrayed and abandoned by Western thought. Learn more about this artist and her practice, in advance of her performance as part of HACER RUIDO Friday, April 16 at 7pm CT.
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ESS Curatorial Fellow Carolina Vélez Muñiz takes us into a deeper exploration of artist Soledad Muñoz’s work, in advance of her performance as part of HACER RUIDO Friday, April 16 at 7pm CT.
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Chicago Reader
by Bill Meyer
March 17, 2021
Experimental Sound Studio is a nonprofit music venue, recording studio, art gallery, and audio archive that's provided a nexus for creative work in Chicago since 1986. ESS has built an audience with concerts and public exhibitions, both of which the pandemic made impossible, but despite that constraint 2020 has arguably been the studio's finest hour.
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Experimental Sound Studio is proud to again partner with composer Olivia Block, recipient of the 2020 IAP grant from DCASE to share Susurrations, a living sound installation.
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The complete guide to broadcasting on twitch for artists - compiled by Lumpen Radio + Experimental Sound Studio.
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As a part of the ongoing work of The Creative Audio Archive at ESS, we present Archive Dive - a regular newsletter/blog post featuring unheard recordings and ephemera related to the collections housed in the CAA.
The 2019 May Archive Dive newsletter features the Sun Ra/El Saturn Collection and The Bridge.
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As a part of the ongoing work of The Creative Audio Archive at ESS, we present Archive Dive - a regular newsletter/blog post featuring unheard recordings and ephemera related to the collections housed in the CAA.
The 2019 April Archive Dive newsletter features radio program ‘Sounds from Chicago’.
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As a part of the ongoing work of The Creative Audio Archive at ESS, we present Archive Dive - a regular newsletter/blog post featuring unheard recordings and ephemera related to the collections housed in the CAA.
The 2019 March Archive Dive newsletter features Lisa Mezzacappa.
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As a part of the ongoing work of The Creative Audio Archive at ESS, we present Archive Dive - a regular newsletter/blog post featuring unheard recordings and ephemera related to the collections housed in the CAA.
The inaugural 2019 February Archive Dive newsletter features Don Dietrich.
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Ahead of Gerry Hemmingway’s concert this Monday for Option, we dug through the Creative Audio Archives housed at ESS to see what we have from the percussionist’s many visits to Chicago.
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Sonic Genealogies: Olivia Block on Harry Bertoia for Radio from Reina Sofia Museum
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